15%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Aesthetics of Strangeness
W Puck Brecher
€ 53.99
€ 45.78
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Aesthetics of Strangeness
Hardcover. This book provides a corrective to existing scholarship on eccentric artists by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic strangeness during the mid Edo period. It explains how through the period, eccentricity and madness developed and Num Pages: 267 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
Eccentric artists are “the vagaries of humanity” that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre–World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan’s modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favour of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the ... Read more
Eccentric artists are “the vagaries of humanity” that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre–World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan’s modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favour of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836665
SKU
V9780824836665
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
Reviews for The Aesthetics of Strangeness